Pharmacological interventions for the prevention of allergic and febrile non-haemolytic transfusion reactions

Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews

Volumn 2017, Issue 12, 2010, Pages

  Martí Carvajal, Arturo J ^a   Solà, Ivan ^b   González, Luis Ernesto ^c   Leon de Gonzalez, Graciela ^d   Rodriguez Malagon, Nelcy ^e  

^a Iberoamerican Cochrane Network   (Venezuela)

^b HOSPITAL DE LA SANTA CREU I SANT PAU   (Spain)

^c School of Engineering Sciences and Industry   (Ecuador)

^d Banco Munic Sangre Distrito F   (Venezuela)

^e UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL DE COLOMBIA   (Colombia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DIPHENHYDRAMINE; HYDROCORTISONE; PARACETAMOL; PLACEBO; HISTAMINE H1 RECEPTOR ANTAGONIST; NONSTEROID ANTIINFLAMMATORY AGENT;

ALLERGIC REACTION; ALLERGY; BLOOD TRANSFUSION REACTION; DRUG EFFECT; DRUG SAFETY; DRUG USE; FEBRILE NON HEMOLYTIC TRANSFUSION REACTION; FEVER; HUMAN; PARALLEL DESIGN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL (TOPIC); REVIEW; RISK FACTOR; SYSTEMATIC REVIEW; BLOOD TRANSFUSION; HYPERSENSITIVITY; PREMEDICATION; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL;

ACETAMINOPHEN; ANTI-INFLAMMATORY AGENTS, NON-STEROIDAL; BLOOD TRANSFUSION; DIPHENHYDRAMINE; FEVER; HISTAMINE H1 ANTAGONISTS; HUMANS; HYDROCORTISONE; HYPERSENSITIVITY; PREMEDICATION; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIALS AS TOPIC;

EID: 77954985359     PISSN: 14651858     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/14651858.CD007539.pub2     Document Type: Review

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